CATHOLICS AND THE GOP: AN UNEASY FIT

Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL) | January 28, 2000 | Copyright

Catholics make up the largest single religious denomination -- 65 million -- of any kind in the United States. They also make up one-third of the electorate in a presidential election, approximately 30 million.

Yet in more than 200 years, a Catholic priest has never served as chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In December, an 18-member bipartisan committee verbally expressed a preference for the Rev. Timothy O'Brien, a political science professor at Marquette University, for the job of House chaplain.

Yet when Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Majority Leader Dick Armey and Minority ...

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